Development of a Written Assessment to Analyze Student Teaching Assistants' PCK-Q

We report on the development of a written assessment designed to analyze pedagogical content knowledge in the context of questioning (PCK-Q). We discuss the process of analyzing and coding classroom videos and writing and testing a preliminary written assessment. The classroom observations have first been coded using a coding scheme that analyzes levels of questioning in an inquiry-based classroom. A written instrument was then developed based on the classroom videos, administered to student teaching assistants (SAs) and compared with video results. We report on the coding scheme and the video/written comparison results of this ongoing project.